| dc.description.abstract | The Confucian Classics in Ming Dynasty, having been defined by scholars as “hollow” and “weak” since the early Qing Dynasty, is devalued as making little contribution to scholarship. However, most of the negative valuations come from the prejudices that the descendents inherit from the predecessors. In other words, what we assess the Confucian Classics in Ming Dynasty, instead of the deliberately scholar statement , is at most following the impressions passed on from generation to generation, incompatible with the objectivity and rationality the scholarship requires.The well-established biases preclude modern people from delving into the essence of Confucian Classics in Ming Dynasty, which has been shaped by negative valuations that mislead us about it. Distortion and misunderstanding make the authenticity and marrow of Confucian Classics in Ming Dynasty, whose development process is described as lack of coherence, blurred and unknown.
Accordingly, the essay titled “Study of The Spring and Autumn Annals in Ming Dynasty” firstly focuses on the retrospect of the mainstream critics in the history of Confucian Classics and the review of judgment and valuation from scholars of all the past dynasties, among which some deservedly weighed and reflected issues are to be clarified.Secondly, the review of Confucian Classics in Ming Dynasty will be targeted at The Spring and Autumn Annals studies, in which there are explorations of the transition and evolution of the official and private studies, of the essence and contents of the study of Confucian Classics and of the academic trend and transition, from which to conclude the prosperity and decline, or the gains and losses, of The Spring and Autumn Annals studies in Ming Dynasty.The essay aims at replacing the inheritedly and obscurely negative valuations on Confucian Classics in Ming Dynasty with academic facts, revising the predecessors’narrow misunderstanding of Confucian Classics in Ming Dynasty, compensating the past specious interpretation of Confucian Classics in Ming Dynasty and then arriving at the true understanding of it.
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